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Someone who comes out of this all with some credit.
Daniel Finkelstein
The executive editor of the Times. He has been in a pretty difficult position in all of this but has not been to shy of voicing his concern. He has stood firmly where he felt he needed to and shown great respect for the concerns of many people when he has been asked valid questions.
I know this is wierd thread but I have heard him a few times and read his coloum today and find him pretty impressive.
The executive editor of the Times. He has been in a pretty difficult position in all of this but has not been to shy of voicing his concern. He has stood firmly where he felt he needed to and shown great respect for the concerns of many people when he has been asked valid questions.
I know this is wierd thread but I have heard him a few times and read his coloum today and find him pretty impressive.
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Sadly Saint Milliband called for him to sacked when he (allegedly) spoke out against Murdoch, And Cameron gave in by pulling him off the Sky deal.
Ouch.
Quite agree - he's won many awards etc.
Always a pleasure to read and to see him on Newsnight.
Does anyone reckon they could benefit from a lot of anti-Murdoch votes at the next general election?
Just one more thing. I was watching the live parliamentary debate today on phone-hacking and something bothered me. A Lib Dem woman MP was trying to ask the PM a question and she was shouted down the whole way through her question. Cameron rightly criticised the MPs for this as he answered her question. Why was she shouted down and why didn't the speaker intervene?
Snap.
That may be because of lack of opportunity rather than lack of willingness, after all they had no qualms about keeping stolen money donated by Michael Brown.
Vince Cable
The Guardian
Chris Bryant
Tom Watson
solicitor Mark Lewis
Miliband, to a degree
me
He never does when its the Labour MP's shouting. If you watch him even when he is doing a general comment about all MP's he looks at the Government benches.
The Guardian for believing in Davies and giving him the backing and resources to see it through.
Also the Guardian for having the balls to face down a much bigger bullying competitor who was using everything at their disposal, including the Commissioner of the Met and his chums coming round to the paper to try to "persuade" them to drop the case.
Tom Watson and Chris Bryant
...and that interactive sleaze map can be seen right here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-scandal-whos-who-interactive
In respect of the News International sleazoids, there's a good case for opening up the White Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Whitetowerlondon.jpg and locking the crims up in there upon conviction because they sure as hell deserve it.
I'm going to go with Cable, tbh.
Tom Watson
I thought Miliband was a better speaker than Cameron today.
He was far more interesting.
I'd also add Chris Bryant and John Whittingdale as well.
I missed out Chris Bryant!
Yes, I'd include both of them.
Labour also previously resisted until Blair became leader and we know what happened after that. I guess his critics were right after all.:( Just when I was starting to think they were exaggerating about him. Thanks for the answer but does anyone have an answer to my other question? Why was that woman shouted down? Was it Labour MPs shouting because she's a Lib Dem and they still haven't forgiven them for joining the Tories? Were any other Lib Dems shouted down also?
followed closely by Rebekah.
"We're all in this together." going by the chart, yes, they are.
I haven't heard Cameron use the phrase lately. Has he dropped it?
yeah Next "im getting on with the job":rolleyes:
Yes I agree he is pretty good. I saw an article by him yesterday in the Times and he made some very interesting points on the subject of plurality with regard to the source of news in the UK based on numbers produced by Ofcom.
His conclusion was if plurality regarding the source of news is a concern it isn't Murdoch you should be concerned about but the dominance of the BBC. It wasn't a case of having a bash at the BBC who he has much parise for but simply pointing out it overwhelming dominates TV news which accounts for around 70% of the public's news source and also dominates the online news arena which is the main source of news for the under 30s. Meanwhile newspapers are the main news source for less than 10%.
Kudos to the bloke for helping others too.